Lotteries in colonial America
By: by Neal E. Millikan
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780415886567
Subjects: Social life and customs; Lotteries; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-118) and index.
Table of contents: title: "City and country run mad after riches": English lotteries from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries; title: Crossing the pond: public and private lotteries in colonial America; title: "A scheme of a lottery": the mechanics of colonial lotteries and interpreting a lottery advertisement; title: Lotteries, the consumer revolution, and changing notions of fortuna; title: "Inexpedient and improper": the end of colonial lotteries and the beginning of lotteries in the United States.